Creative ways to find new customers

[James Grebe]

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Hi,
When I used to have a sign on my vehicle I used to get phone calls about =
my bad driving.  Maybe I drive badly or did.  My wife drives me now.
Jim
James Grebe
Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair
Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups, piano benches, writing =
instruments
(314) 608-4137
WWW.JamesGrebe.com
1526 Raspberry Lane
Arnold, MO 63010
BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE!
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  From: John Ross=20
  To: Pianotech=20
  Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 9:03 PM
  Subject: Re: Creative ways to find new customers


  I have 3M reflective lettering on my van.
  It has been nothing but a positive experience.
  I get approached in parking lots, people come to the house I am at, =
all wanting a tuning, then or in the future. When I had my cell # on the =
van, I have been called on the road, by someone driving behind me.
  I started in 1975, and my first signs were magnetic.
  I have never regretted going to the professionally installed =
lettering, lets face it, it lets people know, you are a professional.
  Oh yes, I have never had a tool stolen. The majority of the tools are =
of no use to the average Joe anyway.
  It seems to me I remember someone saying his vehicle was broken into, =
and his Accutuner was cast aside. Mind you a laptop would be gone.
  If anyone wants to see my signs, I could take a picture of them.
  What is this moving target to get sued? Sounds paranoid to me. When =
was the last time anyone heard of a piano tuner getting sued?
  John M. Ross
  Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
  jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
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    From: J Patrick Draine=20
    To: Pianotech=20
    Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:36 PM
    Subject: Re: Creative ways to find new customers



    On Jan 14, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Matthew Todd wrote:


      Dave Nereson <davner@kaosol.net> wrote:

      -some technicians claim a magnetic sign fastened to their car gets =
them
      new business

      =20

      Doesn't the magnetic sign on your car say, "Hi, I am a piano =
technician, and I have valuable tools to steal.  I am also a moving =
target to get sued."  What is everyone's thoughts on this??


    I suppose it depends on where you work -- not too many car break ins =
in the neighborhoods where I work, fortunately. Likewise, the "moving =
target to get sued" seems overly paranoid to me, but your neighborhood =
must vary from my experience. Plus, when you go into a risky =
neighborhood, it just takes a moment to put that magnetic sign in the =
trunk.

    Patrick Draine
    Billerica, MA "Home of the Billerica House of Corrections"

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